Figure toy



ILCLARK.

FIGURE TOY. APPLICATION FILED JULY 14} I920,

1,374,82 l Patented Apr-12,1921.

PATENT OFFICE.

BERTHA CLARK, or BROOKLYN, NEW Yonx.

' FIGURE roir.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 12, 1921.

Application filed July 14, 1920. Serial No. 396,160.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, BERTHA CLARK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Figure-Toys; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to figure toys, and it is the object of the same to produce an amusing device of this kind mainly from 5 clothes pins.

As its name indicates, the object of the invention is to provide amusement by affording the child a toy capable of being given a variety of forms.

The following specification sets forth the construction of the toy, and the description and drawings give some of its possibilities.

' In said drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the toy stood in its base and simulating the human figure with a tall cap.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the toy simulating the human figure in its simplest form and mounted astride a cord.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing how a number of base elements can be mounted on the body to simulate a barrel.

The body 1 of this toy is an ordinary clothes pin having bored through it near its upper end a transverse hole 2 and bored in its top a socket 3, and into this socket fits a pin 4 at the bottom of an element which is shown in Fig. 1 as a tall cap 5. With the outfit there may be furnished a variety of these elements 5 representing caps and head gear in a variety of forms. Through the hole 2 extends a rod 6 and pivoted at 7 to each end thereof is a small clothes pin 8, these pins simulating the arms,

and the bifurcations 9 of the main pin simulating the legs of the human figure.

The numeral 10 designates a base, preferably slightly conical and having in it or through it a hole 11, and the legs 9 may be pressed a little together and stuck into this hole so that the entire figure will be supported in upright position in the base. The numerals 12, 13, 14:, l5,'and 16 reprethe figure in the base when one base section, I

is used, or holds it in the lowermost of several sections, and the remaining sections are supported upon the lowermost.

Manifestly the child can find considerable amusement with this toy by reason of the movability of its arms and the variety of caps which may be applied; and the figure can be held in the hand, mounted astride a string as shown in Fig. 2, or mounted in a base. Also considerable amusement can be found by providing several bases with the outfit. If desired, one member 25 may be furnished having a plug 24 to fit the socket in the top of the pin, which member is shaped to simulate hair or perhaps the top. of a bald head, this element being used in lieu of any cap and providing the proper rotundity which the knob at the top of a clothes pin would not otherwise possess. In addition to the shape of parts, they may be suitably painted or otherwise colored.

What is claimed is:

1. The herein described figure toy comprising a body composed of a clothes pin having a transverse hole through it near its upper end and a socket in the top of its knob, a member having a pin removably fitted in said socket and with the knob simulating a head, a rod rotatively mounted through said hole, and small clothes pins whose bifurcated ends are pivoted to the extremities of said rod to simulate arms.

2. A figure toy comprising a body consisting of a clothes pin having a socket in the top of its knob, small clothes pins simulating arms and attached to the main clothes pin, a variety of members having pins for interchangeable insertion in said socket to simulate a head and its hat, and means for supporting the figure in upright position.

3. The combination with a figure toy whose body is composed of a clothes pin and whose arms are composed of small clothes pins; of a base having an opening of a size to frictionally receive the bifurcated end of said pin when compressed.

4. In a figure toy, the combination with a body portion composed of a clothes pin;

of a base portion composed of a plurality of sections having central holes adapted to aline when they are superposed, the 'holes being of a size to receive the bifurcations of the pin when compressed.

In testimony whereof vI affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

BERTHA CLARK.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL CLARK, PHILIP KUNZINGER, Jr. 

